RUBIN NOT SCANDAL-WORTHY: Tim Noah has an excellent piece in Slate today. He wonders why Robert Rubin is getting a free pass in the current corporate scandals. But he refuses to call it "liberal media bias," though he does suggest a different kind of media bias:

Chatterbox expects that, in the face of this pressure, financial reporters will make at least passing reference to Rubin in future stories. It's pretty appalling, though, that they've protected him so blatantly thus far. Chatterbox chalks it up not to liberal media bias, but rather to Rubin's membership in the bipartisan Society of Media Darlings, whose other members include James Baker and John McCain.